I hate to have my very first post be negative but I don't know what else to do at this point.
Well, FIRST off, when I bought the truck (a Mazda B3000) I told the sales man I needed it to pull a horse trailer, he guarenteed that this was the truck for me. Well, buyer beware, I didn't do my homework. This truck is only rated to pull 2800 lbs max. That will barely pull a light horse trailer empty! This truck is only 18 months old and the brakes went bad 6 months after purchase. (I purchased the vehicle NEW) and now the clutch went out. I phoned the dealership and they told me the clutch is not under warrenty! I haven't done anything stressful or unusual with this truck...no hauling or anything.
My husband has no experience with a hydralic clutch. What is happeneing is...
It will go into gear fine right when I start it, I'll drive down the street and come to a stop at a light. When I go to shift back into first it will not go no matter what. If we turn the truck off and then back on it will go. ALSO, if we do get the truck into gear sometimes it won't come out....I put it in reverse to back out of a spot and when I went to go forward it wouldn't come out of gear. I finally got it stopped and then it wouldn't go into first.
This happened 2 days ago, my husband checked the fluid and it was just a little low. We filled it up and it ran FINE the rest of the day and all day yesterday. Today it did it again. My husband tried to bleed the system but no fluid came out. The resevoir is still full. If we pump the clutch sometimes a little bit of fluid comes out but that's it. He's going to try to drop the transmission tomorrow and look for any leaks.
Can anyone help? Has anyone had this problem?
Well, FIRST off, when I bought the truck (a Mazda B3000) I told the sales man I needed it to pull a horse trailer, he guarenteed that this was the truck for me. Well, buyer beware, I didn't do my homework. This truck is only rated to pull 2800 lbs max. That will barely pull a light horse trailer empty! This truck is only 18 months old and the brakes went bad 6 months after purchase. (I purchased the vehicle NEW) and now the clutch went out. I phoned the dealership and they told me the clutch is not under warrenty! I haven't done anything stressful or unusual with this truck...no hauling or anything.
My husband has no experience with a hydralic clutch. What is happeneing is...
It will go into gear fine right when I start it, I'll drive down the street and come to a stop at a light. When I go to shift back into first it will not go no matter what. If we turn the truck off and then back on it will go. ALSO, if we do get the truck into gear sometimes it won't come out....I put it in reverse to back out of a spot and when I went to go forward it wouldn't come out of gear. I finally got it stopped and then it wouldn't go into first.
This happened 2 days ago, my husband checked the fluid and it was just a little low. We filled it up and it ran FINE the rest of the day and all day yesterday. Today it did it again. My husband tried to bleed the system but no fluid came out. The resevoir is still full. If we pump the clutch sometimes a little bit of fluid comes out but that's it. He's going to try to drop the transmission tomorrow and look for any leaks.
Can anyone help? Has anyone had this problem?
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